Quotes by Sculptors

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me. Richard Serra
Home Me Back Bay Bay Area About Area Like Coming Coming Home Thing
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. Richard Serra
Life My Life Live Other All My Life Poetry Underlying Go Hand Cape Sea Lived Core
When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art. Robert Gober
Art Faith You Tears Whatever Worship Stations Correlation Some Cross Something Crucifixion Array Blood Up Irrational Taught Being Means Grow Belief Grow Up Symbols
When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were. Robert Gober
Me Young Other Would Disappointed Missing Look Got How Came Go Line Were Artist Lack Often Artists Where Young Artist Story Career
The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense. Robert Graham
Nature Sense Process Original Popular
I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager. Robert Laurent
Me Happy Gone Bit Since New Felt Always Got Manager Newcastle Differently Things
Charlton are a team who play well on the ball, but they found it hard to break us down, they didn't really have an out and out chance in front of our goal. Robert Laurent
Down Our Out Charlton Well Ball Goal Front Break Us Really Hard Team Who Found Play Chance
Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am. Ruth Asawa
Today Good Adversity Sometimes Would Through Had Like Am Been Who Internment
Activism is wasteful. Ruth Asawa
Activism Wasteful
I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing from anyone. A line can enclose and define space while letting the air remain air. Ruth Asawa
Space Air Define Able Stealing Remain Take Wire Without Am Enclose Go Line Anyone While Letting
We used to make patterns in the dirt, hanging our feet off the horse-drawn farm equipment. We made endless hourglass figures that I now see as the forms within forms in my crocheted wire sculptures. Ruth Asawa
Made Farm Our See Dirt Wire Feet Hourglass Make Within Equipment Off Endless Hanging Patterns Forms Sculptures Used Figures Now
Art is doing. Art deals directly with life. Ruth Asawa
Life Art Directly Deals Doing
I'm not so interested in the expression of something, but I'm more interested in what the material can do. And so that's why I keep exploring. Ruth Asawa
Something More Material Interested Exploring Keep Expression Why
It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out. Ruth Asawa
Art Thought Else Define Out Something Something Else Steel Traditional Craft Stone Fifties Sculpture Early Starting
Because I had the children, I chose to have my studio in my home. I wanted them to understand my work and learn how to work. Ruth Asawa
Work Home Had Studio Learn Because Understand How Children Wanted Them Chose
If I hadn't spent all those years staying home with my kids and experimenting with materials that children could use, I would never have done the Ghirardelli and Hyatt fountains. Ruth Asawa
Home Spent Those Kids Would Staying Could Never Materials Years Done Children Experimenting Use
I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.' Ruth Asawa
Myself Citizen Universe Longer Identify American Japanese
An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them. Ruth Asawa
Valuable Something Sees Bottle Looks Juice Egg Artist Them Newspaper
At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape. Willard Wigan
Home World Made Noises Became Escape Person Pipes Heating Tiny Fantasy Fantasy World Rope Skipping Things Imagined
When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in your fingers. Willard Wigan
Work You Control Every Pulse Fingers Fingertips Joints Part Microscopic Movement Body Your Your Body Level
When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills. Willard Wigan
Learning School Trouble Other Kid Carving Disabilities Had Because Lack Body Skills
The microscopic world became my obsession. Willard Wigan
World Obsession Became Microscopic
I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be. Willard Wigan
Me Learning People Made Think Difficulties Way Embarrassment Significant Find Having More Small More And More Could Had Feel Obsessed Became How Making Trying Tiny Wanted Them Show Things
People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on. Willard Wigan
Work Me Man People Challenge Seen Believe Difficult Earth Find Totally Ready Scientists Been Very Shocked Any Done Wants Explain Even Bring
Those that don't believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves. Willard Wigan
Work Believe Those See Small Along Come How Just Themselves Should
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began. Willard Wigan
Me World Thought Made Somewhere Shoes Live Back Criticize Hats Houses Because How Making Began Escaped Ants Where Hold Dyslexia Them Fantasy Fantasy World Then Teachers Started Career Needed
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